Vowel ablaut and its functions in Yuman

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Contents XI
4. List of Contributors XV
5. A. The History of Linguistics and Stanley Newman's Six Decades
6. Prague 3
7. How I discovered linguistics 11
8. SONGS FOR A WINDY DAY 31
9. Bibliography of Stanley S. Newman 33
10. Inventory of Stanley Newman's linguistic materials 41
11. "Singularly like our ideal of a scientist" 45
12. Obituary Stanley S. Newman (1905-1984) 65
13. Stanley Newman and the Sapir school of linguistics 71
14. Sapir's panoramic view (1926) of recent advances in linguistics 89
15. B. American Indian Studies
16. Institutional language maintenance resources of American Indians in the early 1980s 107
17. Spanish loans in Wikchamni 123
18. Some principles of Alaskan Athabaskan toponymic knowledge 129
19. Deified mind among the Keresan Pueblos 151
20. Creek curing in academe 157
21. C. Grammar and Discourse
22. On the unit of paragraph analysis in formal monologue discourse 175
23. Object agreement in the Halkomelem Salish Passive: a morphological explanation 185
24. Argument obviation and switch-reference in Hopi 201
25. Some agent hierarchies in Upper Chehalis 213
26. Vowel ablaut and its functions in Yuman 219
27. Aspect in Isthmus Zapotee 229
28. A later view of Gitksan syntax 245
29. The Kuna verb: a study in the interplay of grammar, discourse, and style 261
30. D. Word Formation
31. Navajo stem variation 275
32. Lexical morphemes in Bella Coola 289
33. Lexical elaboration in Navajo 303
34. E. Phonology
35. Loss of contrast between voiced and voiceless alveolar flapped stops in American English 323
36. Some environments which may condition vowel length 331
37. What is a 'register' language? 337
38. F. Comparative Studies
39. The Proto Otopamean vowel system and the development of Matlatzinca 345
40. A new look at Aztec-Tanoan 365
41. Interpreting the past from the present: a Nahuat example 381
42. Prenasalized stops in Proto-Indo-European 387
43. G. Oral Tradition
44. Tsimshian poetics 395
45. Thoth and oral tradition 407
46. Some aspects of textual relations in Jawoyn, Northern Australia 417
47. H. Ethnological Studies
48. "Say 'Hello' to your (second) cousin Claude:" kinship terminology and recursive rules 447
49. Kumix: the Chorti hero 461
50. Visualizing the physical context of discourse in languages of the past 469
51. Ethnographic notes and observations on the Big Man Complex among the Nacirema 483
52. Index 491